PARIS:
WITH
PEN AND PENCIL
ITS
PEOPLE AND LITERATURE,
ITS
LIFE AND BUSINESS
BY
DAVID W. BARTLETT
AUTHOR OF "WHAT I SAW IN LONDON;" "LIFE OF LADY JANE GRAY;"
"LIFE OF JOAN OF ARC," ETC. ETC.
ILLUSTRATED.
NEW YORK:
HURST & CO., Publishers,
122 NASSAU STREET.
PREFACE.
The contents of this volume are the result of two visits to Paris. Thefirst when Louis Napoleon was president of the Republic; and the secondwhen Napoleon III. was emperor of France. I have sketched people andplaces as I saw them at both periods, and the reader should bear this inmind.
I have not endeavored to make a hand-book to Paris, but have describedthose places and objects which came more particularly under my notice. Ihave also thought it best, instead of devoting my whole space to thedescription of places, or the manners of the people—a subject which hasbeen pretty well exhausted by other writers—to give a few sketches ofthe great men of Paris and of France; and among them, a few of therepresentative literary men of the past. There is not a generalknowledge of French literature and authors, either past or present,among the mass of readers; and Paris and France can only be truly knownthrough French authors and literature.
My object has been to add somewhat to the general reader's knowledge ofParis and the Parisians,—of the people and the places, whose sociallaws are the general guide of the civilized world.
CHURCH OF ST. SULSPICE.